Henkel has launched a new employer branding campaign that features the company’s employees talking about what makes Henkel a great place to work. In recruitment ads, videos, posters and brochures, employees reinforce the new company claim: ‘Henkel—Excellence is our Passion.’ Henkel is a Fortune Global 500 company that markets a wide range of consumer and industrial brands in North America, including Dial® soaps, Purex® laundry detergents, and Loctite® adhesives.

Reebok makes it easier to fulfill sport-related resolutions. As part of the ZigTech running shoes promotion, the brand released a clever ‘Promise Keeper’ app which can motivate you to “actually get out and run by using good old fashioned peer pressure.” The new application, developed by Forsman & Bodenfors (Stockholm) for an iPhone and Android, through Facebook and/or Twitter is informing a user’s friends about his or her promises to run and also posts messages, congratulating or lambasting the user depending on if the run is completed or not.

Heineken revealed plans for a new design program, termed the ‘open design explorations,’ that will create vibrant new concepts for bars, clubs and social spaces. The first project in the program will launch in June 2011 and will invite emerging design talent from around the world to envisage and create a pioneering ‘pop up club’ that will be unveiled in Milan to coincide with Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012.

Recognizing that kids are often the most effective at creating change, Nissan North America, Inc. is launching an in-class and online educational outreach initiative called ‘Choose Zero’ in elementary and middle schools this month. The curriculum, which features the 100-percent electric Nissan LEAF, the world’s first affordable, all-electric car designed for the mass market, is designed to empower kids to make and advocate for changes that reduce carbon emissions in their homes, schools and communities.

Landor Associates excellence in rebranding was recognised at the Transform Awards 2011, with its work winning a gold award in the category of Best Brand Architecture Solution for
Invensys. In a ceremony at the Grange Hotel St Paul’s in London, hosted by former director of communications and strategy to the Prime Minister, Alastair Campbell, Landor was lauded for its work with Invensys who provide an open technology platform that allows partner businesses greater control and flexibility.

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of its ongoing Art Labels campaign, Beck’s is presenting the best graphics which appeared on its limited edition bottles over the past two and a half decades. The exhibit dubbed ‘Beck’s Art Crawl’ and is rolling out at eight pubs across East London from April 11 through April 28, unveiling the archive of bespoke label artworks by celebrated international artists including Tracey Emin, Jeff Koons, Bruce McLean, Richard Long, Tim Head, Tony Oursler, Tim Noble & Sue Webster and Roderick Buchanan.